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Ekalipi Cheat Sheet

  Ekalipi Cheat Sheet Please read this, if you are used to typing in Roman script Typing in Ekalipi on your phone initially seems intimidating or pointless to people who are used to typing English and other languages on their phone. It actually isn’t. Once you start using it you will wish that you had heard about Ekalipi sooner. Let’s quickly understand why Ekalipi is far superior to typing in the Roman script (especially the 26 letter script) that we are most familiar with. To start with 26 letters are not sufficient are not sufficient to represent the 44 basic sounds in the English language. When it comes to sounds from other language families, the letter sounds sometimes simply don’t exist. What makes things even worse is that the letter sounds that you learnt in the alphabet sound charts in childhood almost never correspond to the actual sound of the letter when it is actually used. For example a simple name like ‘Dee” is not just the letter “D”. It is actually written as “De